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08 May 2010 12:58

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Tech: Lamesauce: Nokia’s latest lawsuit against Apple

This whole fight, which now includes the 3G iPad, strikes us as a big kid picking a fight with a slightly younger big kid over playground turf. source
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06 May 2010 12:14

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Tech: If this weird URL works for you, your browser wins a cookie

  • » Admit it. You’re curious. Try it. We dare you. Either your browser sucks or it rocks. Here’s how you find out. source
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06 May 2010 10:35

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Tech: Facebook feeling the pressure over its latest privacy changes

  • 15 consumer groups aren’t fans of Facebook’s privacy stance source
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05 May 2010 20:41

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Tech: Scribd switching to HTML5, kicking Flash while it’s down

  • We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.
  • Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman • Revealing the company’s plans to ditch its Flash-based distribution mechanism for HTML5. Why is this a big deal? Well, they’re about to turn hundreds of thousands of print-focused PDF documents into Web pages. This is a big deal for the future of the Web, because it’s yet another fairly large platform that’s about to switch away from Adobe’s software. Even Adobe, recently eviscerated by Steve Jobs, sees the writing on the wall here. source
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05 May 2010 20:13

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Tech, U.S.: The FCC twists, turns its way through the net neutrality wormhole

  • before The FCC planned to use
    its weight to move
    carriers to follow net
    neutrality rules it created.
  • then A federal court said this
    wasn’t legal and that
    Congress should make
    a net neutrality law.
  • now The FCC now plans to …
    regulate the Internet like the phone system. How
    wacky! source
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05 May 2010 14:07

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Tech: Rube Goldberg would be proud of this Google Chrome ad

  • OMG OMG THAT’S FAST! This Google Chrome ad was shot using a 2700 fps camera to show how fast the rendering speed of the pages were. And in every case used here, it was faster than lightning. This advertising campaign is nothing but win. source
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05 May 2010 10:00

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Tech: Facebook drops a major security ball, and then some. Holy crap

  • We’re looking at your Facebook chats now. We got curious. TechCrunch noticed this major flaw in Facebook’s Gibson this morning, one so massive that Facebook’s chat mechanism is already down for maintenance. In the social networking world, this is equivalent to a zero-day exploit, so we’re very glad that Facebook is at least being quick in fixing it. But still. WTF guys? This is incredibly bad form. source
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03 May 2010 23:54

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Music, Tech: WolframAlpha’s musical cousin the weirdest thing ever

  • Look, we realize that we’re bloggers first, musicians second. But good God, we didn’t know we could create music as godawful as this. The mathematical approach at music creates tunes that sound straight out of 1986 but otherwise has no equivalent. The most interesting part? It predates WolframAlpha by about four years. Waste ten minutes on this, kids. source
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03 May 2010 17:06

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Tech: Could Apple face antitrust issues over the Flash thing?

  • MAYBE the feds are on the case source
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03 May 2010 09:56

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Tech: Apple sells a bunch of iPads really quickly, hits milestone already

  • 1M number of iPads
    sold     since its April 4 launch day
  • 12M number of iPad
    apps     getting used on
    the device
  • 1.5M number of digital
    books     getting read on
    the iPad source
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